I deregisted my ds last week. He is ASD and has been suffering though MS and then an ASD unit for the last three years. Finally after he came home three days in a row with injuries from being "restrained" I could take no more and have removed him. I have given up on the LA to be perfectly frank, I have made my feelings known and explained my ds to them over and over again and I believe he is now emotionally damaged by the time he has spent in school. I will NOT send him back again.
He has a real fear and anxiety now surrounding any kind of education at school he was simply unable to function and learned nothing eg this morning I did Reception level maths with him from the IXL site and he was clueless, he is age 8 and in Year 4. I have got to be able to do better than that!
As I say I deregistered him last week and am now getting a visit, the speed of which concerns me for a start as I had thought that it could take much longer than that.
What do I need to say to them and show them. To be quite honest my ds has learned more with me over the last week than he I believe he has in three years at school. We do things like watch an episode of Horrible Histories and then look up anything that interested him on the net. We also look it up in the encylopaedia too to get him used to referencing from books etc. This week I taught what a dictionary was and how to use it. We are watching Frozen Planet together as well and he is fascinated by it, we talk about it so I can see that he comprehends it and then we do more looking up about the various animals etc. We do basic maths on a couple of websites, I have basically started from the beginning, right back to Reception level maths to get him up to speed. He swims 5 x a week and socialises there, although not at all in a structured way, we go to the park at least four times a week and he makes friends there. Is all this going to be enough to start with?
I thought about doing a 6 week plan to begin with to show them and have diarised all I have done with him this week, is this enough? He does not write, at all, he can but hates it so at this time I don't make him he has enough anxiety and I am trying to reduce that. So I have no work to show them.
Sorry this is so long, can you tell me how you got through your visits? What to expect? What will they want to see? How can they help? If they can help?
Many thanks.